Bertie
Bertie was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,953 among girls’ names; 14,592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Bertie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 80 years old and half are between 71 and 87.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bertie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bertie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bertie is “a diminutive of Bertram, Albert or of any male given names ending in -bert.”
Diminutive + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bertie?
#8,953 among girls’ names, 2025
Bertie rose from #16,861 in 2015 to #8,953 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 6.8 per million.
415 babies in 1928, the peak
Bertie peaked in 1928, when 415 babies were given it (396 girls, #336 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,953 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,651 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,302 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,521 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,096 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,379 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,798 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,934 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,861 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,079 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 6 | #8,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,427 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,240 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,319 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,052 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,088 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,621 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,218 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,758 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,118 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,155 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,662 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,508 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,473 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 47 | #1,420 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 54 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 69 | #1,076 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 75 | #1,011 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 94 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 89 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 90 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 110 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 118 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 126 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1941 | 132 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 123 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1939 | 138 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1938 | 158 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1937 | 136 | #577 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 176 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1935 | 176 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1934 | 189 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1933 | 194 | #470 | 0.19 |
| 1932 | 228 | #436 | 0.21 |
| 1931 | 202 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1930 | 234 | #439 | 0.21 |
| 1929 | 267 | #405 | 0.24 |
| 1928 | 396 | #336 | 0.34 |
| 1927 | 238 | #451 | 0.20 |
| 1926 | 271 | #413 | 0.23 |
| 1925 | 253 | #434 | 0.21 |
| 1924 | 260 | #433 | 0.21 |
| 1923 | 256 | #419 | 0.21 |
| 1922 | 320 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1921 | 292 | #396 | 0.24 |
| 1920 | 306 | #378 | 0.26 |
| 1919 | 299 | #375 | 0.26 |
| 1918 | 308 | #370 | 0.27 |
| 1917 | 301 | #362 | 0.28 |
| 1916 | 327 | #343 | 0.31 |
| 1915 | 342 | #323 | 0.35 |
| 1914 | 239 | #342 | 0.31 |
| 1913 | 230 | #315 | 0.37 |
| 1912 | 222 | #304 | 0.40 |
| 1911 | 174 | #300 | 0.42 |
| 1910 | 195 | #278 | 0.49 |
| 1909 | 184 | #264 | 0.53 |
| 1908 | 164 | #276 | 0.49 |
| 1907 | 188 | #251 | 0.59 |
| 1906 | 150 | #270 | 0.51 |
| 1905 | 165 | #251 | 0.57 |
| 1904 | 188 | #223 | 0.68 |
| 1903 | 188 | #222 | 0.72 |
| 1902 | 205 | #206 | 0.78 |
| 1901 | 196 | #202 | 0.82 |
| 1900 | 203 | #221 | 0.68 |
| 1899 | 162 | #215 | 0.70 |
| 1898 | 167 | #227 | 0.65 |
| 1897 | 175 | #209 | 0.75 |
| 1896 | 183 | #207 | 0.77 |
| 1895 | 154 | #220 | 0.66 |
| 1894 | 178 | #196 | 0.80 |
| 1893 | 167 | #198 | 0.78 |
| 1892 | 169 | #194 | 0.80 |
| 1891 | 156 | #188 | 0.84 |
| 1890 | 158 | #188 | 0.83 |
| 1889 | 143 | #189 | 0.80 |
| 1888 | 179 | #163 | 1.0 |
| 1887 | 108 | #193 | 0.74 |
| 1886 | 151 | #154 | 1.0 |
| 1885 | 126 | #163 | 0.95 |
| 1884 | 99 | #179 | 0.77 |
| 1883 | 106 | #160 | 0.94 |
| 1882 | 96 | #162 | 0.89 |
| 1881 | 68 | #181 | 0.74 |
| 1880 | 77 | #169 | 0.85 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bertie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 14,592 Americans recorded as Bertie, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bertie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bertie, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 12% of the 14,592 Americans ever recorded as Bertie. The median Bertie alive today is 80 years old; half are between 71 and 87.
The 2020 Census counted 2,183 people named Bertie (1,932 women and girls, 251 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 793 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 651 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 112 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 99 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bertie born?
The states with the most babies named Bertie are North Carolina, Texas and Georgia, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 926 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Texas | 849 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 706 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Tennessee | 653 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Alabama | 596 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Kentucky | 505 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| South Carolina | 483 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Virginia | 473 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Oklahoma | 388 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 353 | not ranked | 2.0× |
Where Bertie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bertie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bertie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 21,878 babies since 1880, Bertie is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 20 babies (55%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bertie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bertie and names like it
- Compare Bertie and BertaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBertie peaked in 1928.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bertie since 1910.
- The top names of 1928The year the most babies were named Bertie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Bertie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.